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Scaramouche 10:19 am UTC 04/20/07 |
| In reply to: | Who are Blue Man Group? - Gerald Scarfe Talk - might have seen before - Rupert 08:25 am UTC 04/20/07 |
| I 'aint got a clue either, how The Blue Man Group would work within a Bat Out Of Hell show. This was something rumoured a couple of years ago (probably bollocks), and I think has been superseded by the new stage show. Also, can't see how Scarfe's animation is gonna work to great effect within a live stage show, but Jim obviously has the vision. However, Scarfe would be great for the album cover, show poster etc. > Jim Steinman and Blue Man Group - I don't get the > connection in relationship to The Bat out of Hell Musical. > Some comments I saw from Gerald Scarfe working with Jim - > Scarfe is currently working with Jim Steinman on a > theatrical version of Bat Out Of Hell. “That’s great. It’s > collaboration and being an artist is a lonely life, I’m > working here alone, day after day, I’ve got the family, of > course, I can ask them questions. But when you’re working > in the theatre you’re working with a director and all > sorts of other people who make things for you, it’s really > nice and I’m very, very fond of doing that. But it’s a > long term project. I don’t have to stop doing all the > other things I do, I can carry on drawing and then go into > the theatre at five o’clock in the afternoon. But it’s a > collaboration so you do have to listen to what other > people say, whereas I as an artist, whatever I want to put > on paper, appears on paper.” “I think the people who > employ me know the kind of stuff I do, they don’t expect > me to do normal theatre." And as for Bat Out Of Hell? > “I’m working with Jim Steinman. What he wants me to do is > design ‘Bat out of Hell’ as a theatre project, and to do > animated sequences as well. Jim’s a very nice, intelligent > guy. He has split with Meat Loaf, they had some > difference, but on New Year’s Day I flew to Connecticut > and spent ten days with Jim going through the script. It’s > a theatre production that’s going to come on next year, > they say. What one has to learn in the theatre world is > that it’s all optimism. You never know until someone > actually puts the millions of dollars necessary down. I’m > told that money is there, but I haven’t got any way of > knowing myself whether it is or not. But it would be very > nice to work with him. I sort of vaguely remember ‘Bat out > of Hell’, but on replaying it I was surprised how > theatrical it is, and grandiose. He’s a great Wagner nut. > He loves Wagner, and his house is a sort of tribute to > Wagner, there’s this circular room he’s had built, with > little Wagner statuettes sort of spot lit all round the > room. The first thing he did, when we got there, was to > play ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ at incredible volume, he’s > got this amazing sound system in his house. Jane wore ear > plugs the entire time we were there, it’s just killing, > the volume. I remember with the Floyd, if you went in > front of the speakers…it’s no wonder some of them go deaf. > So that would be nice if that happened, but there are a > number of things like that that are always on the back > burner, and being in theatre you learn to not raise your > hopes too much, but you always secretly hope it’s going to > work, but a lot of them don’t" > | |
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